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The Break Inby  Jane Tumminello
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Two teenage guys set out to break into a house, but just as they're about to go inside, they come upon something horrific they never expected.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Doctor Where?by  Elliot Stanton
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Ralph's doctor is running late for an appointment, leaving him regretting a rash decision.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
I Want Her Husbandby  Melissa Diane Hudson
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For two agonizing years, a cunning wife plays the fool as her treacherous sister relentlessly schemes to steal her wealthy, conventionally unattractive husband. When she finally traps the adulterous pair with nowhere left to run, her icy execution of vengeance leaves no room for mercy or regret.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Araneumby  Bill Cornelius
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A psychoanalyst works to uncover the mystery of why an entire family is trapped in a comatose state. His investigation leads him into a nightmare world ruled by a mysterious Victorian woman in a porcelain mask.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Full Exposureby  Steven Burton
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A female artist asks a male photographer to pose nude for her project, which triggers other uptight challenges before he decides to pose.

Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Screamersby  Chris Lewis
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A world without fresh water or fruitful soil can lead to demarcation and brute force reality. Over population and stark sad realities.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Short Waitby  Art D'Alessandro
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Harry, 41, nearly runs another driver off the interstate, as he angles his classic BMW onto a downtown ramp toward the bus station. Dad's coming in and Harry hopes he's not late. Can't bear late or waiting. But when the old man shows up finally, Harry learns a big old life lesson about time.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Perennialsby  Donald Lewis
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Paranoia takes root when a White suburban woman repeatedly receives business cards from a Mexican landscaper through her front door mail slot, sending her on a frantic mission to stop the invasion of her home.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
What Day Is It?by  Bill Rutkoski
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Jimmy, a struggling actor known only for a cheesy seafood commercial, gets dubbed "Clam Man" by a waitress he instantly falls for. That same day, his world snaps: the days of the week start shuffling and looping in a pattern only he can see. When he watches her murdered on a Saturday that won't stop repeating, he throws himself into each loop, fighting to stop the killer before Saturdayand shevanish forever.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
33 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Chickentownby  Kevin Pacey
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Tragic accident or premeditated murder, a teenager falls to his death and a corrupt police officer protects the accused.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Elevatorby  Antwon Taylor
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When a couple encounters an unassuming stranger in an elevator, their lives are drastically changed forever.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Running Moneyby  Dewayne C Bricker
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When a broke single mother discovers stolen bank cash hidden inside her apartment wall, she and her little girl go on the runpursued by the violent ex-con who buried it there and will stop at nothing to reclaim what he thinks is still his.

Genre: Drama
34 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
In the Bloodby  Jack Halliday
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A P.I. resorts to supernatural means to solve a case where the suspect in three murders is an older man bedfast in hospital, despite the man's DNA & fingerprints being found at three crime scenes. 1st place award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Winter Meetingby  Michael G Holmes
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Four baseball executives brainstorm increasingly absurd ways to make Major League Baseball more exciting for a new generation, only to have the simplest solution come from the maintenance man changing a light bulb.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Implantby  Dewayne C Bricker
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A writer's nightmares of alien implants fuel his horror noveluntil he learns the story is real and ending it will end him.

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Boxby  Dewayne C Bricker
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Ty wakes in a steel vault with a timer, a phone, and a deadly choice: press a button for air or let both die. Through a stranger's voice on the line, he questions morality, guilt, and survival. His refusal to play exposes a sinister experiment testing human ethicswhere even doing nothing has a fatal cost.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spinning in Infinityby  Joshua Corin
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After a brutal battle leaves their starship crippled and life support failing, four crew members debate whether they are real or merely simulations and must decide whether to keep fighting for survival or sacrifice themselves to save the 'real' people their existence was designed to protect.

Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
K!ll!n T!m£by  F!N
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A Scottish schizophrenic armed with a ticking time bomb is forced to rob his own bank in a race against the clock!

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Love Sex Shoesby  Ron Brawer
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When an aging Casanova hooks up with a young Louboutins-loving lawyer, past follies surface -- with Fellini-esque consequences.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Firewoodby  Gary A. Edwards
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FIREWOOD - is a comedic short play small cast about an entertainer who gets fired twice from an ageist, racist, homophobic theme park run by a tyrannical, paranoid boss with a Napoleonic complex who makes money exploiting young girls and boys aspiring to be actors.

Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Hankby  Baerbel Morsch
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Days before retirement, a veteran detective takes on one last cold case a 32-year-old unsolved murder with a dying witness who finally wants to talk.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Rainy Night Killerby  Doug J Robbins
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The Rainy Night Killer kidnaps Nick's wife and plays a game of cat and mouse with the wrong cop.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Day 11by  Adam Rocke
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The six survivors of an alien invasion make their last stand in an abandoned, partially destroyed shopping mall.

Genre: Action/Adventure
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Playtimeby  Doug J Robbins
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A boy witnesses his father murder his mother in front of him on Halloween night. The boy is then gifted a doll possessed by the soul of his slain, murderous father, and all Hell breaks loose.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Room For Rentby  Johan Michaels
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A lonely traveler looking for an escape becomes the latest guest at a sinister roadside house, forcing him to confront a predator who has spent years turning victims into possessionsand discovering that survival may depend on trusting a stranger he has never met. 3 intersecting character stories: Leonard's struggle to move beyond isolation. Elias's childhood trauma turned ritual of control & possession. Claire's instinct to recognize danger, act when others dismiss it.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Exit Stage Leftby  Elliot Stanton
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Even off-stage, the show must go on. An experienced old actor rues missed opportunities and reveals a hidden illness to a young, caring colleague who attempts to open his eyes to the bigger and brighter picture.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Beware of Pumpkin Faceby  Doug J Robbins
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Henry murders his abusive father on Halloween night. He hugs his little brother, Clayton. Henry is 10, and Clayton is eight. The boys hug, and Henry is institutionalized. Twenty years later, Clayton stalks Marnie, Henry's psychiatrist, and becomes the terrifying killer known as Pumpkin Face.

Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Miraclesby  Paul Sokal
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A young, naive parish priest, Father Moretti, is demoted to the Vatican's Miracle Investigation Office, a dank hole in the sub-basement, where he's told that miracles are just a marketing ploy, crushing his faith, until he can discover a true miracle.

Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Seventh Seal Experimentby  Jeffrey Stackhouse
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A drink, a game, a bet, and Death, entirely in rhyme.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Survive The Nightby  Richard Hohenrath
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During a late night "Graveyard Shift" on Christmas Eve, a convenience store employee fights to survive a one-on-one encounter with a bloodthirsty creature of the night.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
24 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Perfectly Stillby  Dewayne
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When meticulous serial killer Adrian Vale abducts a woman and prepares his perfectly staged basement ritual, he expects another controlled and predictable victim. Instead, Dr. Maya Sloanea criminal psychologist who studies predatorsbegins dismantling his carefully constructed world piece by piece. As their chilling confrontation turns into a battle of intellect and control, Adrian slowly realizes the woman he captured may have anticipated this encounter all along.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Home Like a Shadowby  Linda Boroff
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Adapted from award-winning, anthologized short story https://www.piltdownreview.com/2018/10/home-like-a-shadow.html Worldly, cynical college girl accompanies her new boyfriend to his alcoholic mother's birthday party in a "Grapes of Wrath" town in the baking San Joaquin Valley and finds herself drawn into family conflicts and memories dating back a hundred years and more. To her surprise she finds belonging and acceptance amidst the drinking, gambling, and a violent 2 a.m. free-for-all.

Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Keep On Saving the Worldby  Jared Stonefield
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A superhero is frustrated that he's had to take time off to recover, and his girlfriend suspects something else is going on - now they're about to have it out over date-night dinner.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Death Sentenceby  Brian Jackson
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In a stark cell, a guilt-ridden man haunted by visions of his mother, bride, and daughter must utter the command that becomes humanity's death sentence.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mirrors of Betrayalby  Melissa Diane Hudson
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A determined mother uncovers disturbing secrets about her daughter's new husband, igniting a dangerous game of deception and betrayal that threatens to destroy their family and reveals that evil never truly dies.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Agence Paradisby  Slobodan D. Pesic
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A timid man visits a futuristic government agency where every human desire can be fulfilled. What begins as a simple request for a pair of sneakers spirals into an absurd chain of wishes exposing the fragile machinery of modern happiness and the divine comedy of human ambition.

Genre: Artistic
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Something Borrowedby  Frazer Lee
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Valentine's Day takes a romantic-comedic turn when a homeless man meets the love of his life amidst the discarded flowers, cards, and chocolates in a city park.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Nightmare Clownsby  Doug J Robbins
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Nightmares of an evil clown haunt a woman, and he might just be real.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Santa's Conundrumby  Robert Herold
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When a troubled boy demands that his Christmas wish be never eating vegetables again, Santa Claus must navigate an intimidating mother and a bureaucratic liverwurst-addicted elf to deliver a magical solution with unexpected consequences in this hilarious and touching homage to classic Rankin/Bass holiday specials.

Genre: Animation
26 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
It's Now or Neverby  Elliot Stanton
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In a world where Elvis lives, a suburban man's golden ticket to see The King goes missing down the back of the bath sparking a hilarious battle between nostalgia, plumbing, and domestic survival.

Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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